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Winthrop seniors honor girl who died day before graduation

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Seniors at Winthrop University will be graduating with heavy hearts.

Authorities said 21-year-old Anna Hurst was found dead in her bed at her home in Rock Hill, the day before her graduation.

The university will honor her memory at its commencement ceremony today.

Her parents will accept her diploma in her honor.

The coroner is performing an autopsy to determine how she died.

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